Delta Airlines on Tuesday announced a partnership with American pharmacy chain giant CVS Health to speed up employee COVID-19 testing, the company said it would “build confidence about traveling” for its customers.
The airline noted that the “rapid-response nasal swab test” will offer employees another option so “that a baseline understanding of the infection can be established across Delta.”
Joanne Smith, Delta’s executive vice president, in a statement said there is no “single method” to reduce the transmission of the virus and pointed out that the airline’s workforce is “always on the move,” but she called the partnership with CVS a “convenient and reliable option to our people.
Surveys indicate that instead of growing comfortable with air travel, more people are becoming skeptical about it. In the United States, airline bookings have stalled in the past month after slowly rising — a reaction to a new surge of reported virus infections.